Release 6.4.0 is here, packed with new features and enhancements to streamline your operations. Dive into the details and discover how these updates can benefit your organization by reading the release notes below.
Release 6.4.0 features
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Admin
Advanced service type configuration
Quincus Platform > Admin > Settings > Services
- Set up the holiday calendar at the country, state, city, or facility level to exclude holidays from SLA computation and pickup/dropoff date selection.
- Define applicable service add-ons for each service type.
- Include specific origin-destination pairs for different service types.
- Configure SLA rules for each service type and auto-compute the estimated delivery time during order booking.
This update further streamlines your order operations by auto-computing service SLAs based on service routes and operating schedules, enhancing efficiency and accuracy.
Enhanced milestone configuration
Quincus Platform > Admin > Settings > Milestones
- Establish a difference between customer-facing and operations milestones.
- Set up milestone reasons that accompany each milestone update.
This update enhances the existing milestone feature on the Quincus Platform, adding more utility by providing context to milestone updates and ensuring that updated milestones are shown to the appropriate user groups.
Set up custom fields
Quincus Platform > Admin > Settings > Custom Fields
- Use custom fields to capture additional information needed from your customers and operations team during order creation and shipment consolidation.
This update allows you to customize order and shipment fields, giving your organization the flexibility to capture essential information unique to your daily operations.
Designate facilities as drop-off points
Quincus Platform > Admin > Locations
- Enable customers to self-drop-off their shipments at designated facilities.
- Set up facility drop-off operating hours to specify when customers can drop off their shipments at the chosen facility.
This update enables your organization to provide self-drop-off options to end-customers, expanding your service offerings and enhancing customer convenience.
Order
Enhanced service type selection
Quincus Platform > Order > Orders > Create Order
- Service types are now paired with service add-ons, enabling your customers to select either pickup or drop-off service for their order.
- Allow customers to choose their preferred pickup and drop-off dates within your business's operating schedule.
- Automatically calculate the estimated delivery time, based on your SLA configuration and operating schedule.
This update ensures that your end-customers select only service types and add-ons applicable to their order routes, improving order accuracy, reducing processing errors, therefore enhancing the overall customer experience.
Shipment 2.0
Milestones enhancement
Quincus Platform > Shipment > Hub Operations > Operations Update > Shipment Milestone
- Select milestone reasons to support and justify your manual milestone updates.
This update adds a secondary level of description to milestone updates, offering more context and instructions on how shipment handling should proceed.
Rail segment support
Quincus Platform > Shipment > Shipments > Edit Journey
- You can now manually plan each shipment's journey to include rail segments.
This update enables your organization to keep detailed records of rail transportation, making it easy to monitor cut-off times, assigned carriers, and rail numbers.
Sea segment support
Quincus Platform > Shipment > Shipments > Edit Journey
- You can now manually plan each shipment's journey to include sea segments.
This update enables your organization to keep detailed records of sea transportation, making it easy to monitor cut-off times, assigned carriers, and voyage numbers.
Network
Lane setup enhancement
Quincus Platform > Network > Allocation Matrix
- You can now set up lanes using customer account as a parameter.
This update enables you to plan distinct lanes tailored to specific customer accounts, complementing existing parameters such as service types and origin-destination pairs.
Customer Pricing
Introducing: Pricing Contracts
Quincus Platform > Customer Pricing > Contracts
- Create pricing contracts for different customer accounts, linking them to rate cards and set up the validity dates.
This update simplifies contract management, and ensures accurate pricing for each customer account.
Additional shipping charges configuration parameters
Quincus Platform > Customer Pricing > Shipping Charges
In this release, we've introduced additional pricing parameters, providing enhanced flexibility to configure rates that align closely with your business requirements.
Add line items to price records
Quincus Platform > Customer Pricing > Price Repository > Price Record > Edit
You can now add new line items to existing price records before finalizing charges to your customers, ensuring all necessary fees are accounted for prior to billing.
Specific chargeable weight configuration
Quincus Platform > Customer Pricing > Settings > Chargeable Weight > Create
- Set up different chargeable weight rules for various combinations of service types and customer accounts.
This update ensures precise and customized shipment weight configuration to meet each client's unique requirements.
Specific financial status trigger configuration
Quincus Platform > Customer Pricing > Settings > Financial Status > Create
- Configure distinct financial status triggers for various combinations of service types and customer accounts.
This update ensures real-time updates to each price record's financial status based on the shipment progress.
Customer Portal
Operations view on the Customer Portal
Quincus Platform > Shipment > Shipments > Detailed View > Customer Portal Ops View
Access comprehensive order and shipment details, such as internal milestones tailored for internal operations teams.
Customer view on the Customer Portal
Quincus Customer Portal > Track > Order > Activity Tab
Experience a simplified interface with access to common tracking milestones, ensuring transparency while maintaining vendor details confidentiality.
Milestone reasons display
Quincus Customer Portal > Track > Order > Activity Tab
Display reasons for each milestone update, giving customers and internal teams better context on the status and progress of each shipment.
Enhanced service type selection
Quincus Customer Portal > Create > Single Order
- Service types are now paired with service add-ons, enabling your customers to select either pickup or drop-off service for their order.
- Allow customers to choose their preferred pickup and drop-off dates within your business's operating schedule.
- Automatically calculate the estimated delivery time, based on your SLA configuration and operating schedule.
This update ensures that your end-customers select only service types and add-ons applicable to their order routes, improving order accuracy, reducing processing errors, therefore enhancing the overall customer experience.
QFlow
Set up custom field validations
* QFlow is configured outside of the Quincus Platform.
- Configure custom validations to verify field inputs against specific criteria.
- For e.g., you can reject orders when the declared value for an order exceeds the maximum order value threshold.
This update offers enhanced flexibility, allowing you to tailor order creation and shipment processing flows to meet your specific business requirements.
UPU order ID configuration
* QFlow is configured outside of the Quincus Platform.
- Configure order IDs to be generated according to UPU S10 standards.
This feature is ready for use by postal businesses, allowing UPU IDs to be generated when new orders are created on the Quincus Platform, streamlining operations and ensuring compliance with international postal regulations.
Enhancements
Enhancements are improvements made to existing features on the Quincus Platform.
| Capabilities: | Enhancements: |
| Order & Customer Portal > Bulk import orders |
Bulk upload file for order import has been enhanced with "*" to denote mandatory fields, aligned header naming, accept service code, and 2-letter ISO country code. |
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Shipment 2.0 |
The allocation matrix bulk upload file has been enhanced to accept origin and destination locations at the country and state level. |